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What Can Ohio State Fans Expect From EA Sports College Football 2025? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, February eighteenth. I'm your host,
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  Tom Or. The Akron game is in one hundred and ninety five days,
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  the game against Michigan two hundred and eighty six days. And once we know
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  an actual date for the NCAA football game, we can put a countdown to
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  that in this show intro as well, if you'd like the countdown as of
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  today to the date that's sort of been floated reported that sort of lines up
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  with the old release date. Well, that would be the NCAA football game
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  in one hundred and forty five days, give or take. That would put
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  it on July twelfth. That's the date that sort of been floated for some
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  people. By some people, it's very much unofficial. So let's talk about
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  if we don't know when that game is going to come out, let's talk
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  about what we do know about that game. We're doing that with our buddy
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  Tony gerda bit if Buckehaddle dot com. Tony Ea dropped a new video towards
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  the end of last week, and it was a new video and it confirmed
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  that there's going to be a college football game this year. What else did
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  we learn from EA Sports about the new Football video game. I think we
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  learned that they realized that a lot of a lot of a lot of people
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  really want this game, and so they said it just just to confirm where
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  maybe quiet down the haters, like, yes, it is really happening.
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  In the video of the teaser trailer that they're sewing a jersey in the back
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  of the name plate says something like, yes, it's really happening. In
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  terms of the release date time, back in the day, all media CDs,
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  DVDs, magazines were released on Tuesdays. I don't know if new media
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  is still like that. I don't know if magazines are still released on Tuesdays.
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  But the games back in the day, it was the second Tuesday of
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  every July, So that would put it July ninth this year. If they
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  wanted to just continue to go with the old ways, we'll see what happens,
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  but it would be nice if it was sooner, just because but you
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  know, because they've had it for so long. But what we learned is
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  that it's happening, they are hard at work, and that we will see
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  more in May. All right, So the next thing that's going to happen
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  with this. The game is going to come in July. There's going to
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  be more information coming in May, and I'm assuming, hoping fingers crossed,
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  that will include some actual shots of the game itself. That is, you
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  know, video game production I think, as we've sort of learned over the
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  years, is real, real deadline focused, and it's very very time intensive,
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  and there's you know, they probably didn't put any screen you know,
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  video in there, like video from the game because it may not actually be
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  ready yet. So my assumption is when we get they just sort of said
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  more information coming in May. So what do I guess We're going to find
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  out more about the game itself, maybe some you know, video clips of
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  the game something like that. I mean, what are you thinking we might
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  see? Then? Yeah, I'm expecting clips of gameplay, big plays.
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  You know, they back in the day, they would release highlights or clips,
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  but you would also have an in correlation with that, media outlets would
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  start to get screenshots and things like that that would also start to populate.
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  So yeah, I'm expecting some gameplay clips. You just wonder what it looks
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  like nowadays. If I think the fear that a lot of people have is
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  that it's just going to look like Madden. And the great thing in my
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  opinion about NCAA Football is that it was different than Madden. It's a different
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  gameplay. I always thought the gameplay was better than Madden. It was smoother
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  than Madden. So I think you're gonna want to see some differentiation. And
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  it's not just because hey, look it's the college teams. I think it
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  needs to be presented a little bit differently. But we will see in terms
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  of what that looks like. But I am expecting a teaser trailer of some
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  sort with gameplay with you know, they're definitely going to show mascots, they'refinitely
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  going to show stadiums. They're doing so much work on all of the all
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  of the stuff that you eventually after you've played it for a week, like
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  fast forwarding through like skip skip skip skip, like there were There's gonna be
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  a lot of that shown. Just the the pageantry of college hoopball. I
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  think we'll see a bunch of that coming up well. And you you know,
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  I am loath to compliment you, especially when you're actually on the show,
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  but you have been put it. You put in some good work to
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  figure out some of the things that Ohio State has submitted, because each of
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  these schools EA doesn't just sort of like pull us out of nowhere. They
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  have all the schools that are going to participate submit assets in terms of here's
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  what our mascot looks like, Here's what our stadium looks like, here's like
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  whatever, here's here's the music we play, and here's the when we play
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  the music and all that kind of stuff. You submitted a foyer, a
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  Freedom of Information Act request to Ohio State to figure out like, okay,
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  what did they actually submit, which will give us probably a pretty good idea
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  what Ohio State fans can expect to see when they turn the game on in
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  July. So what did you find at about find out about what Ohio State
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  submitted to EA Sports. Yeah, I asked for everything they submitted. They
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  only sent me the audio aspect of things, because I also wanted to know
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  if there are going to be any alternate jerseys in there, and like what
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  kinds of images they sent. But they did respond with basically every instance that
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  the Ohio State marching band plays or that music will play over the PA in
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  Ohio Stadium. And it's interesting because like EA Sports sends out basically a spreadsheet
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  to every school that's going to participate, listed in terms of game moments as
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  they call them, and for Ohio State, they've got a bunch listed here,
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  like when the team runs out, they play fight the team across the
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  field, so that's when it'll queue on the game opening kickoff as seven Nation
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  Army. We'll see if they get the rights to that, the whole publishing
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  aspect of that, because I'm sure one hundred and thirty teams are asking for
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  that, say we play this, and so there's some that it probably worth
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  will be worth it to pay for it. But you know, back again,
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  back in the day, really they would only play like the fight songs
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  of the schools, and that's that's where you would learn every single fight song,
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  and you would it would just you know, as you're cycling through various
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  screens, you would know all of these songs, but just situational times.
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  You know, on first down they play the rock and Roll Part two.
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  On third downs night on Bald Mountain. You know, I don't there's no
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  Hell's Bells listed here, which I thought was interesting. They're not there.
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  You know, we don't. We don't play that a C D C.
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  Then we don't play that devil music. We we just play classical music,
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  touchdowns, Buckeye battle cry, a successful point after attempt or a successful two
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  point conversion Buckeye battle cry, and then of course the post game when they
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  even have the team singing Carmen, Carmen, Ohio. We'll see if that
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  shows. That would be interesting to see. Again, this is all stuff
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  that eventually you're just going to be fast forwarding through. But to get a
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  look at stuff like that, they did also include we don't give a dan
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  for the whole state of Michigan. We'll see if that makes it. I
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  don't know that it will, but that would be interesting. And even situations
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  like, uh that song when one of the notes here is when they are
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  playing Michigan and the game is no longer in doubt and Ohio State looks like
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  they're going to win. It's the band that starts singing the song, and
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  then the entire you know stadium will will follow suit, and of course you've
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  got the you know, the o hio around the stadium. So based on
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  the level of minutia that EA Sports has asked for from universities, I'm expecting
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  there to be a lot of minutia basically because you know, they're getting these
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  sound files, they're you know, the one of the ones is the victory
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  bell at the end. They've got to Ohio State set them information on that
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  one as well. So they've asked for audio files of all of these things
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  or you know, where can we get them. So they're asking for a
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  lot, and it seems to me they've had a long time to deal with
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  this and they know they have to get this right, so they're going to
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  I think they're gonna put a lot of little things into it, but again
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  that'll becomes stuff that is background. I still think there's some concern for the
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  big things, but the level of care that they're showing with the small things
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  would make you hope or make you anticipate that they would have that same level
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  of care for the big things. Because even part of that trailer that they
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  showed that they're released this week was talking about how they know how important this
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  game is to a large population of college football fans. Yeah, I think
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  I be I think exciting and new for the younger folks, the people who
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  are in college now, it's going to be exciting and old for the older
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  folks who were in college when this game used to be a thing every year.
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  So yeah, it's going to I think this is going to be quite
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  a quite an event. Might just want to see if we get the federal
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  holiday federal government to declare a four day weekend or something like that around the
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  release of the game. Let's just let's not get ourselves. Productivity probably going
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  to go through the floor. They did submit you, as you said,
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  submitted a specific clip of the victory bell ringing, And I thought, oh
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  is this I actually looked it up because I'm like, oh, I did
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  a story in the Victory Bell a couple of years ago. Did they submit
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  my story for the clip? No? They did not. That was very
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  disappointing, but that's okay. They submitted someone else's. It was like a
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  twelve year old clip. I'm just going to play a little clip here just
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  to give you a sense of if they do end up putting the victory bell
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  in here, here's what this is going to sound like. All right,
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  So we don't know if the victory bell is going to be in there.
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  We don't know specifics on any of the other stuff. I am wondering I
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  mean you mentioned licensing the Seven Nation Army. That feels like that's a song
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  that about fifty seven different schools use, so that one will probably be in
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  the game. I don't know if Zombie, the one that Penn State uses
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  all the time, maybe that'll be in there. The one I'm really interested
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  in, Tony is neck did LSU? I would I really run one a
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  foy f LSU and see if they have submitted Neck, which is the song
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  that their band plays towards the end of games where they are going to win
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  and they are very excited they are going to win. There's a chant that
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  goes along with that. I'm going to guess they will not submit the chant.
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  They might submit just the band, but well, we'll see. I'm
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  interested to see whether they do that kind of detail, you know Army Navy
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  game. Do they have both teams singing their alma maters and the winning team
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  singing second, all that kind of stuff. Well, we'll find all that
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  kind of stuff out. That's all the kind of details that we will probably
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  find out on you know, July whatever it is, when that game comes
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  out. One thing that I'm really interested in, Tony, this is gonna
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  be the first time you have play your name and rating. They're gonna be
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  players, you know. I think a Mecca Abuka is probably gonna pretty excited
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  by his raiding, pretty happy with his raiding. I think I don't know,
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  Jackson, You're probably gonna be prett happy with his rating, Tony.
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  They are going to be college football players who open it up and it's not
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  half back number four or cornerback number thirteen, it is your name. Congratulations,
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  you're in the game. Enjoy your rating of seventy. I think that's
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  gonna be that's gonna be a rough one. And I wonder how many college
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  football players are going to end up, you know, maybe giving us it
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  was a little ratings boost if they if they want to or create, delete
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  that guy off the roster and make a creative player where I'm the ninety nine
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  overall Tony that I was born to be. Well, it's kind of for
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  that reason. Maybe they go to the mad Way where everybody is edible,
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  editable, you can edit anybody just so you can increase your your own.
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  It's like you've made me a seventy and this five hundred dollars that you sent
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  me for my my likeness just not enough. I need to be able to
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  edit myself because I'm clearly in eighty seven. You guys just don't know what.
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  You haven't seen the film, you haven't seen the work that I've put
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  in, and I'm I'm also thinking that at some point we probably we'll need
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  to do some sort of video where we're giving the ratings out ourselves, like
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  what would you rate the receivers? And now it's just going to become part
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  of, you know, what we do around here now that the game is
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  back. Just discussing how he's about an eighty four, this guy, you
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  know, maybe coming in there at like a seventy three, where it just
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  becomes part of the talk. He's a four star, low four star about
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  a seventy three. You know, you know eighty seven speed don't even forty
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  two awareness. It's not good talked with them. It's just it's going to
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  take some time, and it'll be interesting to see how that just gets put
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  into part of our the college football culture now that it's back, or we'll
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  soon be back. So a lot of things to look forward to, a
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  lot of things that we haven't even really explored with this whole unveiling and this
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  new avenue of you know, just being able to play the game again.
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  And yeah, it's going to be not a very productive couple of weeks there
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  when it comes out. But the good thing is you don't need to spend
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  the first two weeks their first week putting the rosters in or waiting to get
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  the roster in the mail from somebody who has done it, and it's just
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  going to be there, and you know it'll be fun. It will be
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  fun, and you know, it might not be fun for the players to
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  look at their ratings. It might not be fun for us legendary video game
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  coaches who have to deal with nil and the portal. They have not talked
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  about that at all. I'm a little leery about exactly how much off field
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  time am I going to have to spend convincing my second string running back that
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  he needs to listen. I got to go talk to the guy at the
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  car dealership because we got to keep this guy here because you never know what's
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  going to happen with the first string guy. I'm hoping that there are going
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  to be some options to turn some of that stuff on and off, because
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  I'm not sure I'm willing to deal with some of the field hassles. If
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  I'm not making a seven figure salary, Yeah, there's gonna need to be
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  some sliders, like how aggressive are your players in the portal and how likely
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  are they to go In the past iterations there were still transferring and so you
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  still had to deal with that. But now it's like, are they going
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  to crank it up? And with all of the bells and whistles, it
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  can it can be too much. And I don't know. Not everybody's gonna
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  want to deal with everything. Some people are just gonna be like, I
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  want to recruit, I want to build my team, and I want to
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  play games, and I don't want to deal with touching base on all eighty
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  five guys. And that's another thing. It used to be what fifty five
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  and then seventy guys on a team for e sports and now guessing all eighty
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  five. So now you time, you won't have to make that decision anymore,
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  like, well, these three guys are going to get put in the
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  game, I'm gonna have to decide which which seventy guys are good enough the
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  top seventy guys. And so now now with like eighty five guys, you're
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  gonna have to keep even more people happy. Good luck with that, can't
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  wait. I'm sure that's gonna be a lot of fun, just like Paperwork
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  Simulator twenty twenty five. Like I'm somehow less excited for this game than I
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  was when we started this show. But that's okay. We have we still
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  have what one hundred and forty five days or whatever it is to get to
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  get to get the excitement level back up for the for the start of that
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  game. If you were too young to remember that game, I can just
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  assure you it was an absolute phenomenon back in the day. I'm gonna guess
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  it will be an absolute phenomenon when it shows up again later on this year.
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  And Tony, I can't help but notice it's gonna get released about a
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  week before we're spending I think what four days together in Indianapolis for the Big
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  ten Media Days. So one of us might have to well I would have
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  to purchase a video game system, but one of us might have to bring
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  a video game system to Indianapolis and just let's let's find out who. Let's
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  find out who the real who the real MVP is, because I think it
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  might be fun and that might be, it might be fun, gonna be
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  just good, good to uh good to see that back in our lives again,
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  Antonia, I guess gotta tell you. I can't wait to triple option
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  you to death with Navy. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be the
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  most miserable slog. You'll be begging to get back to nil on the portal.
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  But that's okay. We'll we'll save that for July. As for now,
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  you can find us at buckey huddle dot com covering you do football team,
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  the recruiting, the ex's and o's, all that good stuff, plus
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  at YouTube dot com slash Buckey Huddle. Make sure you're subscribed there. We'll
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  have plenty of coverage of the team, plenty of coverage of spring football,
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  maybe some maybe some EA sports of college football later in the year. We'll
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  see how that all goes, but we will be there. Hope to see
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  you there as well. Thank you guys for joining us. Have a great
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  day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.